The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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